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Environment Agency nappy report is seriously flawed

That report, what a load of rubbish!! The Environment Agency has recently completed a report which states basically that using cloth nappies does not have much more of an environmental saving than using disposable nappies.....

read the report

Well, think of this - one baby in disposables fills about one black bag (bin liner) with nappies per week...... so thats 52 per year........so its about enough in a year to fill one skip - well in Leicestershire there are about 10,000 babies born every year........so that would be l0,000 skips per year just for the new babies and the another 10,000 for all the 1 year olds and the 2 year old......

So imagine a row of 100 skips down your road - look pretty messy wouldn't it

So imagine 1,000 skips

then 10,000

then 20,000 ....... its a lot of rubbish which need not be created at all - and thats just one years worth, just in Leicestershire

Rather scary when you think of it like that......

So irrespective of whatever electricity is ued in a few loads of a washing machine - well we all wash all the time, washing may use electricity, but it does not use and create that much waste - and don't forget, disposable nappies can take up to 500 years to decompose - yes we would still have nappies from Henry VIII days if they all did the same then - its disgusting and extremely un environmental.

So what can you do about it?? (apart from of course using real nappies and converting as many as you can to do the same)

Click here to read themedia statement concerning this report from the Women's Environment Network

Over to You ..

Write to the Environmental Agency to tell them your own reaction

Lobby your MP to support Early Day Motion 155. View it online at http://edm.ais.co.uk

Challenge misconceptions about the benefits of real nappies among friends and in your local media

Get WEN's double-sided factsheet on what you can do. Download it free from www.wen.org or send 21p to the WEN office.

Three MPs tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM155) within days of the report expressing disappointment at its flaws and the "unhelpful" messages it sends out "that the disposal of one-trip products is somehow environmentally acceptable". Thirty eight MPs had signed up by June 28th. Get political - it can make a difference!!

We all we all like to escape now and again and we are pleased to say that we attended this super festival again this year - set in Somerset near Cheddar Gorge this is a beautiful place to get away from it all and to contemplate life, the universe and everything. OK, so may be we will all discover the anser is 42, but for those of us who are still looking for further answers, this year proved to be a winner - we had a few insights and we thought we would share them with yhou.........

Apparently this year marks the end of a l9 year lunar cycle - interesting stuff and maybe a few of you too have had a strange year - think back to anything that started l9 years ago and see if that feels relevant to you? Could be the start of something very different? Jonathan Cainer was in attendance and was not talking about astrology - no, he was talking about his new book, Cosmic Ordering - well worth a read -

The whole festival felt different - global warming, or warning, or general cosmic consiousness, who knows, tis the time for all us like minded folk to pull together - so lets get thinking positive - little things can make a difference -

Nappies at the festival? Yes, again Blooming Bottoms a nappy laundry service from Belfast were there supplying washable nappies for clothies to use at the festival - How dedicated is that? No washing involved, simply hand back used nappies and Blooming Bottoms cart them all off at the end of the festival for a wash at a local hospital. Of course the dear ladies from WEN also were there (bless 'em) and this is an event well worth attending next year.